Obama to Chair UN Security Council? Isn't that against the constitution?

Barack Obama is set to become the first-ever U.S. president to chair the United Nations' 15-member Security Council when it meets later this
month.

Section 9 of the Constitution says:

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent
of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Hey man id love to think that you are right, however maybe the UN isn't considered a foreign state because we (America) are a part of it. If im wrong
please let me know i dont know what the UN techinally is.

I dont think he really recieved any permanent title or anything, I thought it was just this months meeting, and they have someone else chair the
meeting every month, Not saying that I agree with us bieng involved with all of the un resolutions, just saying I dont think its a permanent
thing,

In my personal opinion though I think our president should be more worried about us instead of UN bullcrap, just more wrong government priorities,
what else is new??????

Well actually as long as we are in a state of emergency and at "war" the constitution is "suspended" while we deal with the "threat" at hand by
whatever means necessary, giving the executive office extreme powers only "temporarily" to protect us from the "threat".

At least that's what a professor said yesterday during a speech on constitution day.

I think you missed the most important part in the quote from the constitution, namely "... from any King, Prince or foreign State." The UN is
neither a King nor a Prince nor a foreign State. I think it's a good thing that he will be presiding there. Where I live we call the President of the
USA "planetarch", i.e. planet leader, anyway.

I just don't understand why this subject isn't getting as much attention as it should be, well actually I kinda have my suspicions. Did we all wake
up this morning, to find this nation that was in the middle of an economic recession and is currently engaged in an all out political war somehow
corrected itself and we are all riding high now. In my opinion if President Obama wanted to hold this chair he should have respectfully waiting until
he is unseated from his current position of acting commander and chief. I expressed a suspicion that he actually never ended his campaign after
winning the election and was trying to take a pole position seat as the figure head of the world, since so many see him as a savior I can see him
taking the CHANGE idea all the way to become the head of the NWO(just crazy, I know).

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